10 Golden Nuggets on List Building Strategies
Target, Segment, Go Viral!
Every new entrepreneur on the web or any new business starts out without a list of followers or customers and asks themselves the question: “How do I build a list of people who will be interested in what I have to offer?”
A targeted list of email subscribers doesn’t just happen overnight through luck; it has to be built one subscriber at a time and can be a long drawn out process if you don’t know how to go about it.
You are looking for a responsive list that wants to hear from you on a regular basis and values the information you provide.
How to Separate the Clooneys From the Carrot Tops in Your Email List
“Summer in Hollywood is about blockbuster movies and celebrity sightings. In the world of red carpets and premiere parties, stars range from A-listers like George Clooney to, well, not so highly rated celebs, like Carrot Top. The same could be said for your email customer contact list.”
“Think of your most valuable, highly engaged email contacts as your own “A-list,” and your least valuable, maybe even inactive, contacts as your “D-list.”” Read more
Ultimate Guide: 11 Sign-Up Strategies for Building Your Email List
Once you build an audience (of email subscribers), anything is possible.
“The truth is that building an engaged and sizable email list is hands-down the most long-term, profit-generating investment you can make.
In fact, a McKinsey study reveals that email is a whopping 40 times more powerful at acquiring new customers than Facebook and Twitter combined. On top of that, the average email-based order’s dollar value is 17% higher than social media channels.
That’s the good news.” Read more
8 Great Ways to Get More Subscribers for Your Email List
“Your business’s email list is hands down its greatest asset. You likely already know that, but building your list up from scratch can be challenging and confusing. The reality is that building up your list can take time, but more than time it takes some consistent, effective tactics. If you can stay disciplined, you will watch your numbers grow.
Here are eight great ways to get more subscribers on your list.” Read more
How to Choose a Solid Email Service and Build Your List on a Firm Foundation
“The big question is: if you know building a list is the smart thing to do as a content marketer, what’s stopping you?
More than likely, you’re overwhelmed.
There are a plethora of tools you can use to set up and manage your email list, and you may be completely confused.” Read more
5 Ways to Personalize Your Email List Call to Action to Get 10x More Signups
“How do you make it a total no brainer for someone to give you their email address? If I offered you $100 cash in exchange for your email address, would you give it to me?
The key to making this work is a time-honored tradition and it’s dead simple. Give something of value in exchange for what you want.
If you want the reader’s email address, you have to offer something valuable in return.” Read more
The easiest way to segment your email marketing list — and increase response
“In the world of Big Data, segmentation may seem like an old-fashioned technique with no place in an era of relevant, timely, one-to-one personalized communications. Catalogers run their entire businesses using the Recency / Frequency / Monetary segmentation technique. Others segment their audience via demographic and lifestyle attributes, often called personas.”
“And then we have the vast majority of cases, where no segmentation is conducted whatsoever. You have probably received tens of thousands of emails from businesses who do not segment their subscriber list.” Read more
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Email Marketing 101 – What Makes an Email Viral?

Conclusion
I hope these articles will provide you with tools you can use in your next email marketing campaign.
Any thoughts?
Tagged with: Autoresponder • call to action • eami subscribers • email marketing • email messages • email response rate • list building • responsive list • segmenting • viral email
Filed under: Internet Marketing
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